Description
This scene of two women in a Parisian café has a hushed atmosphere that is heightened by the warm palette and glow of gaslight. Édouard Vuillard and Félix Vallotton were close friends and painted together in the 1890s, but Vuillard’s quiet café and Vallotton’s riotous Bistro (2020.114) could not be more different in mood.
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris. André Weil, Paris. Jacques Seligmann, New York. Theodore Schempp, Brodhead, Wisc. Purchased from him by Leonard C. Hanna together with a Gauguin painting, 7 June 1943. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1958.
Accession Number
1958.57
Medium
oil on board, laid on cradled panel
Dimensions
Unframed: 28.8 x 27.5 cm (11 5/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
